Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joseph Ching, a junior at Purdue University, says many of his professors have warned students not to use sites like Chegg, where students are posting homework and quiz questions and getting answers from tutors. I reached out to Chegg, and sure enough, business there is booming. Students pay for a subscription of $14.99

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Chegg announced today that it bought the Berkeley-based startup for about $15 million in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition by Chegg is the kind of outcome that entrepreneurs and investors have long hoped to see in the edtech world. Prior to buying WriteLab, in October 2017 Chegg paid €12.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We’ve been cashflow positive for more than 18 months at this point … I think that's a rarity in the world of technology startups and in the world of fast-growth, education-technology startups.” Codecademy hired its first chief financial officer last November: former Chegg executive and general manager Adam Goldman.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2022

Morris had been known as a vocal critic of edtech, and companies like Course Hero—as well as similar companies like 2U and Chegg—have been roundly criticized by educators for providing students with the tools they need to cheat. The companies note that they forbid cheating.) billion after a funding round last year.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2022

Chegg Chegg is a website and app where students can access a wide range of resources. For children who require one-on-one math tutoring for some reason, Chegg boasts of having competent math tutors who can provide help with homework as well as assistance with other school work like tests, exams exercises, etc.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. Soon, there will be one fewer after tech training provider Pluralsight gets taken private later this year.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 18, 2018

In this week’s dealmaking news, a handful of education companies were acquired; Follett acquired adaptive learning platform Fishtree and Chegg acquired online studying platform StudyBlue. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Follett, Chegg, Golden Gate Capital Make Acquisitions appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Textbook publishing giant Pearson Education has filed suit against education technology company Chegg, saying the online homework help provider infringed on its copyright. The post Pearson Files Lawsuit Against Ed-tech Company Chegg, Alleging Improper Lifting of Content appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

“To take advantage of the stimulus money would be to offer really attractive multi-year deals,” says John Krull, an IT consultant who previously worked as chief information officer for Seattle Public Schools and chief technology officer for the Oakland Unified School District. “At billion in venture capital.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2022

During the past two years of the COVID-19 crisis, there has been a spike in student use of so-called homework help websites —including Chegg and Course Hero—which market themselves as providing study aids but which many professors see as designed to aid student cheating.

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Textbook and tutoring company Chegg is acquiring a leading language learning platform to expand its offerings into different languages. The company announced it will acquire Busuu, a UK company, for approximately $436 million in an all-cash transaction.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2019

Gonzalez’s firm last invested in student services provider Chegg, but hadn’t found another education company that piqued his interest until his firm started talks with Platzi. For the U.S. and European Union, by comparison, that applies to about 60 percent of each area’s workforce. companies in search of employees in the region.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors. Fueling that growth is Chegg Services, which brought in just over $100 million in revenue last quarter, a 33 percent increase over Q1 2019. As such, it is difficult to predict how much, if any, of Chegg's first half momentum will continue.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5 Bond was founded by Mary Meeker, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins whose annual “Internet Trends” reports have become a must-read for the technology industry. billion , according to The Economic Times.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.read more

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2019

Other investors include education technology executives, like Penn Foster CEO Frank Britt and Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, along with Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Flatiron Health CEO, Nat Turner. -based startup has raised $1.9 million in a seed round led by Mark Cuban and ECMC Group, an education nonprofit.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. of Florida Asks Students to Use App to Report Profs Who Don’t Teach In Person. By Jeffrey R. Young When a campus safety tool turns into a surveillance device. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It? By Jeffrey R. Higher Ed, We’ve Got a Morale Problem — And a Free T-Shirt Won’t Fix It.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Learning platform provider Chegg announced its acquisition of Cogeon, and ed-tech investor Owl Ventures closed an $185 million funding round. The post Chegg, Fuel Education Announce Acquisitions; Owl Raises $185M appeared first on Market Brief.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 23, 2020

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.read more

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Citation Machine Citation Machine by Chegg is another helpful bibliography generator to try out, well , if you can stand the annoying ads. Cite This for Me and BibMe are all Chegg services that are similar to Citation Machine. You can copy and paste it into your paper. Once done click on Complete citation.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2018

A handful of education companies, including Chegg and Boxlight. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Chegg, Boxlight Make Education-Related Acquisitions appeared first on Market Brief. announced acquisitions this week.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Print textbooks are the eternal punching bag for the things people think technology should render obsolete. spending on PreK-12 instructional technology steadily ticked upwards, from $2.6 Technologists from Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, almost a century apart, have predicted their demise. From 2011 to 2014, U.S. billion to $3.3

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We One of the other giants of the study-aid world, Chegg, has also come under criticism by professors.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. Earlier in 2018, Pluralsight, which provides online classes for technology and business professionals, went public. WriteLab (Chegg). Jennifer Carolan, co-founder and managing partner at Reach Capital The Palo Alto, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Cheating on Chegg? It’s no surprise that students would ask for help on platforms like Chegg, which offer digital textbooks as well as tutoring and homework help. Technology shapes our behavior everyday. This kind of persuasive technology, which intends to push and pull us in different directions, is intentional.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

We’re taking the youth and media culture of Flocabulary, and pairing it with the device technology of Nearpod,” says Rappaport. Its biggest institutional shareholder is Insight Venture Partners, a private equity firm whose education portfolio also includes Chegg, Instructure and Pluralsight—three companies that have gone public.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 6, 2016

The month of May kicked off with a significant number of deals in the ed-tech sector, including acquisitions by Chegg and ACT, Inc. based Chegg said in a statement. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Chegg Acquires Easy Solutions; Age of Learning Raises $150 Million appeared first on Market Brief. received cash infusions from investors.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

Tell me a little bit about some of your recent partnerships with companies such as Chegg. Chegg provides, amongst other things, tutoring services. I think Chegg is doing well in that. But with the introduction of Cengage Unlimited, we're actually opening up to more potential acquisitions down the road.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Many of its services are similar to those offered by Chegg, a publicly traded education company that has also seen a meteoric growth in usage and revenue since the pandemic hit. Founded in 2006, Course Hero is already well known among college students, millions of whom use it to get study materials, share class notes and ask tutors questions.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 8, 2023

The world of educational technology is evolving meteorically and what is relevant today might be irrelevant next month. The latest trend in EdTech that I see currently gaining traction is Artificial Intelligence technologies. With the widespread use of web and mobile technologies, language learning has become way easier and accessible.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Chegg has long be one of my favorite sites for buying, selling, or renting textbooks/eBooks as well as finding homework help. Chegg has acquired StudyBlue which was one of the world's leading flashcard creators for education. I highly recommend checking out Chegg Prep by clicking here !!!

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. Thus, replacing expensive textbooks with technology in the classroom is the right thing to do in the current scenario. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.read more.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

That’s because doing so doesn’t require all the content to live on the same technology platform, but simply means setting up an account that can work across existing products. Hansen mentioned expecting new digital products from competitors such as Chegg, and added, “I would not be surprised if Amazon builds something in this space.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Earlier this month, McGraw-Hill, Barnes & Noble Education and Chegg teamed up for a new digital textbook rental program that the trio claims can help students save as much as 70 percent from buying print copies. He projects that the North American business could decline by another 5 percent.

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